Dems Increase Their Majority In Legislature

STATE – Democrats held all 26 of the seats they controlled in the state Senate and gained a 48th seat in the Assembly to keep their majority in the state Legislature.

The post-Census redistricting process created new maps that largely favored incumbents, but Republicans had hoped to make modest gains through a handful of competitive districts. Democrats carried the day, with state Sen. Jim Whelan beating Vince Polistina by 8 points in District 2; incumbent Bob Gordon beating Bergen County Freeholder Director John Driscoll in District 38, and incumbent Linda Greenstein easily defeated Richard Kanka in District 14.

Here are the results for districts with towns in Union or Middlesex counties: